Gasket



Jan. 3l, 1928.

H. A. BARUTIO GASKET 4Filed Sept. 19, 1925 i r fiange to the surface.

Patented Jan, p..

UNITED STATESl `P'iirlaN-'r OFFICE.

mmr mu ammo, oir s'r. Louis, xissom.

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Application lled September 19, 1925. Serialllo; 57,329.

This invention relates to gaskets, and has 3 between various ob]ects, but it is especially adapted for use as a weather strip on doors .of an'end fragment -of one form of an elonand windows and aroundrefrigerator doors and, also, for vibrator absorption purposes.

As manufactured, t e attaching the gasket strips hitherto used is approximately radial to the tubular portion, but when the flange is attached to a .flat surface, it is forced to lie tangential to the tubular portion, so that the flexible covering material in this abnormal position is under stress at the juncture of the kflange andthe tubular portion. Furthermore, the stress tending to restore the flange to its normal radial position tends to raise the flange from the flat surface to which it is attached, thus placingadditional strain on the tacks or other fastening' means which secures the Accordingly,.an object of thepresent invention is to provide a strip having a flange so formed that it may be readily accommodated to a flat attaching surface with a.

i `minimum of strain onthe flexible covering of the strip and the means which 'secures the flange to the surface.

Furthermore, when the old form of strip. ressure is ex-l is used in places where the erted against the tubularportion on the side opposite the ange andparallel tb the atas is the case when weatherthe tubular portion bends about its junction with the fiange, in-

taching surface,

stead of compressing under the pressure `exerted thereagainst, as` will be explaine more fully hereinafter.

Accordingly, another object of the present invention is to provide a strip which may be so attached to a Window frame that the juncture of the tubular portion and the flange is more nearly in the line of the compressing force, so as to react more nearly squarely against the same, -instead of forming a turning couple therewith' as in strips of the prior art.

Another object is to provide a gasket in which all the seams are concealed when the be used to form a sealv fiange of gasketis secured in place, so thata neat and smooth continuous surface vand edge is pre` sented exteriorly.

Other objects and advantageswill appear in the course of the following descriptionA of preferred embodiments of the invention.

in the accompanying drawings forming part of this' specification, in whic ke numers of lreference denotes like parts wherg.

ever they occur,

Figure 1 is an enlarged perspective view gatedgasket embodying the features of this invention; v

-Figure 2 is a fragmentary transverse sectional view of a window frame, showing the gasket attached thereto;

in F1 s gures 1, 2,` and comprises a strip of flexible, pliable material, preferably waterproof fabric or fabric coated with rubber on its outer side, having -an intermediate tubular portion 1 and attaching portions 2 and 3 extending as continuations from the respective meeting edges Land 5 lof the tubular portion 1 to form superposed layers of an attaching fiange 6. The portion 2 has a marginal extension 7 folded backwardly on a line .8 disposed farther out than the outer longitudinal edge 9 of the other attaching portion 3 so that the portion 3 is inclosed or covered thereby, the said ortion 7 being bent inwardly and forwar ly at the'inner longitudinal edge 10 ofsaid flange 6 to form a portion 11 intermediary of the rtions 3 and 7. The terminating longitu inal edge 12 of the portion 11 in this form of the invention coincides with the edge 9 of the portion 3; v

The tubular portion 1l inclosesa filling 13 of packing material, preferably an clon ted body of yielding packing which may be uilt up of soft fibrous 'cord into a circular crosssection.. This packing will freely yield to form an effective seal, and when the pressure is relieved will resume its normal circularinforced flange 6 and to confine the packin 13 within the tubular portion 1. It 1s pre erable, however, to pass stitches 14 through and unite the portions 2, 3, 7, and 11 at the junction of the portions 2 and 3 with the tubular portion 1, so as to closely confine the packing 13 in the tubular portion 1.

Stitches 15 may also pass through and unite lar portion 1 in order to bring its seating face `18 into a. position tangential with the tubular portion 1. This relieves the tacks of the undue strain required in prior gaskets to force the flange from its' normal radial position to one tangential with the tubular portion when secured to a flat surface. The strain may be removed entirely by increasing the thickness of the flange 6 towards its seating side 18 until the said side is normally tan ential to the tubular portion, but with the t ickness of flange toward the side 18 indicated in Figure 1 the strain is practically negligible.

It will be observed, also, that, when the gasket is applied as in Figure 2, the exposed side 19 of the flange is substantially radial, notwithstanding that its seating side 18 is substantially tangential. When, therefore, the sash 20 exerts pressure against the tubular portion 1, this pressure is squarely opposed by the reaction of that portion of the flange substantiall radial to the tubular portion, so that t e tendency to shift the tubular portion about its junction with the flange portions away from the side of the window frame 16 is practically negligible. In prior gaskets of this type the thin tangential flanges of the attached gasket could oppose no radial reaction to the pressure of the sash, so that the tubular portion was shifted instead of being compressed to make a tight joint.

In the form shown in Figure 3, the layer 3 does not extend as far out as the layer 2, and the layer 11 has its outer longitudinal edge 12 still further retracted than the edge 9. This construction produces, with a minimum of material, a wedge-shaped Hange whose seatin side 18 is normally tangential to the tu ular portion 1.

Fi re 4 illustrates the manner of attaching t e gaskets to a refrigerator wall 21,

so that when the door 22 is closed the tubular portion 1 of the gaskets is compressed. It will be observed that, when the gaskets are secured in position, no unsightly seams or joints are visible and aneat smooth exterior is presented.

Having thus fully described this invention, I hereby reserve the benefit of all changes in form, arrangement, order, or use of parts, as it is evident that/many minor changes may be made therein without departing from the s irit of this invention or the scope of the ollowing claims.

I claim:

1. As an article of manufacture, a gasket comprising a strip of flexible material hav ing a tubular portion and an attaching flange extending from one side of said tubular portion, the said flange being formed in superposed layers of different respective widths so that their outer ed es are at different distances from the tu ular portion, whereby the thickness of the flange decreases progressively from its inner margin to its outer edge, so that the flange presents one side substantially radial and another substantiall tangential to the tubular portion, and a Ii ling of packing material in the tubular portion.

2. As an article of manufacture, a gasket comprisin a strip of fiexible material having a tubu ar portion and attaching ortions extending from one side of the tubu ar portion to form a pair of layers of an attach-- ing flange, one of the said attaching portions having a marginal extension folded backwardly to inclose the other of said attaching portions and then folded forwardly to form an enclosed ap intermediary of itself and the enclosed attachin portion, one of the said inclosed elements emg narrower than the other and both being narrower than the flange, whereby .a flange of progressively increasl thickness is formed; and a filling of pac ng material in the tubular portion.

3. As an article of manufacture, a asket 10| comprising a strip of flexible materia having a tubular portion and attachin portions extending from one side of sai tubular portion to form an attaching lian e, one of said attaching portions extending eyond the other and being bent backwardly to inclose the same, a iillin of packing mate rial in the tubular portion, stitches passing through and uniting said attaching portions and said inclosing backwardly bent portion lll at the junction of said tubular inclosing portion and the attaching portions so as to close said tubular portion and confine the packing therein, and stitches passing through and unitin the extended attaching portion and its bac ardly bent portion at the outer edge of said attaching flange.

4. As an article of manufacture, a gasket comprising a strip of flexible material having a tubular portion and attachin por- 12| tions extending from one side of sai tubular portion to orm `an attaching ange, one

of said attaching ortions having a marginal extension fol ed backwardly on a line arther out than the outer longitudinal edge 18 y attaching portion so of the other attaching portion so that the said other attaching portion is inclosed thereby, the said backwardly folded extension being bent inwardly and forwardly at the inner longitudinal edve of said flange, a filling of packing material in the tubular portion, stitches passing through and uniting said attaching portions and the backwardly and forwardly folded layers of the said attaching portion/extension at the junction of said tubular inclosing portion and the attaching portions so as to close said tubular portion and confine the packing therein, and stitches passing through and uniting the extended attaching portion and its extension at the outer edge of said attaching flange.

5. As an article of manufacture, a gasket comprising a strip of exiblevmaterial having a tubular portion and attaching portions extending from one side of said tubular portion to forni an attachingr fiange, one of said attachin ortions having a marginal extension fol ed) backwardly on a line farther out than the outer longitudinal edge of the other that the said other attaching ortion is inclosed thereby, the said backwarly folded extension being bent inwardly and forwardly at the inner longitudinal edge of said liange to a terminating edge `disposed in retracted relation to the outer longitudinal edge of the said other attaching portion, a filling of packing material in the tubular portion, stitches passing through and uniting said attaching portions and the backwardly and forwardly folded layers of the said attaching portion extension at the junction of said tubular inclosing portion and the attaching portions so as t0 close said tubular portion and confine the packing therein, and stitches passing'through and uniting the extended attaching 'portion and its extension at the outer edge of said attaching flange.

6. As an article of manufacture, a gasket comprising a. tubular portion and a flange portion, said fiange portion having such thickness relatively to the tubular portion that one side of said flange portion will lie substantially in radial relation to said tubular portion and that the other side of said flange will lie tangentially with relation to said tubular portion.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature.

HELEN ANNA BARUTIO. 

